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social and political outlook of the people. In 

 the mode of farming, it will force new busi- 

 ness organization ; and when new acres cannot 

 be had, the old acres will be doubled by using 

 them to greater depths. In very many ways, 

 the shift is now demanding a new kind of 

 study of agricultural questions. This redi- 

 rection of agriculture is bound to come in 

 every state ; and we should meet it hopefully. 

 Nor would I have my reader feel that this 

 readjustment is all in the future. It is pro- 

 ceeding at the present time, and with greater 

 momentum and effectiveness than many of us, 

 I suspect, are aware. After many years of 

 touch with the problem and with the men who 

 are capable of judging it, I am impressed that 

 the persons who are most alarmed are those 

 confined largely to offices and who are given 

 to the study of statistics. 



The situation with individual farms. 



A discussion of statistical generalities does 

 not exhibit the status of the individual farmer 

 nor give us specific reasons for the decline of 



